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Monday marks 100 years of television.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/23/television-100-years-old-biggest-tv-moments-of-century?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television
The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us

#Nithya #Raman,
a progressive urban planner,
entered Los Angeles politics with a bang when she was elected to city council in 2020,
defeating an incumbent Democrat endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
⭐️More than five years on, the 44-year-old is making waves again
with her last-minute…

Democrats' last-minute move to block GOP funding plan sends lawmakers home early (Alex Miller/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-last-minute-move-block-gop-funding-plan-sends-lawmakers-home-early
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p59#a251219p59

Just two months ago, a massive power outage left parts of San Francisco in the dark for days
Some lawmakers are trying to make sure it never happens again.
"San Francisco has been trying to break up with PG&E for a long time,"
said Democratic Senator Scott Wiener.
"The rates are extremely high and we know that public power can bring lower rates."
Wiener says he will announce legislation on Monday that would allow San Francisco
-- and…

David Brooks, who wrote a NYT column last month decrying popular fixation on the Epstein story, appears in newly released photos of a 2011 event with Epstein (Anna Betts/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/jeffrey-epstein-estate-f…

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/this-buzzy-cyber-startup-wants-to-take-on-dangerous-ai-threat-c0916a3a
Kevin Mandia, founder of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant—which was acquired by Alphabet’s Google for $5.4 billion—has formed a new …

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
 
The woman, who The Associated Pres…

Woman adopted by American war veteran faces deportation to Iran
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States. She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a legal loophole. The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because of her legal situation, received a letter this month order…

Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M at a $600M valuation (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/this-buzzy-cyber-startup-wants-…

Congress leaves town until 2026
with no health care deal,
forcing premium hikes
Four Republicans teamed up with Democrats to require a vote to revive ACA funds in early 2026.
But Senate Republicans tell NBC News that bill is dead on arrival across the Capitol.

Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes
The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned Thursday until the new year with no solution on expiring health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, meaning insurance premiums for about 22 million Americans will rise next month.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/this-buzzy-cyber-startup-wants-to-take-on-dangerous-ai-threat-c0916a3a
Kevin Mandia, founder of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant—which was acquired by Alphabet’s Google for $5.4 billion—has formed a new …